[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2538 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2538

To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal the requirement 
                     for unique health identifiers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 24, 2019

   Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal the requirement 
                     for unique health identifiers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Patient Identifier Repeal 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR UNIQUE HEALTH IDENTIFIERS.

    Section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d-2(b)) 
is repealed.
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